Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2024-11-21 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah.
Summary:
“Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.
In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.” (via Goodreads)

Board Meeting
2024-11-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board of trustees meets in the Young at Heart room on the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public. This is the last meeting of the year.

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2024-12-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library from 3-5pm for Arts & Crafts for Grownups. We’ll be making little pine cone Christmas trees in tiny terra cotta pots!

Book Club
2024-12-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of December’s book, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.
Summary:
“Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?” (via Goodreads)

Christmas Storytime + Party!
2024-12-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2025-01-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-01-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of the first book of the new year, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
Summary:
“Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.” (via Goodreads)

Snow Play Day! a 1,000 Hours Outside Activity
2025-01-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Board Meeting
2025-01-27 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-02-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The board meets on the fourth Monday of the month in the Young at Heart room to discuss library matters. Meetings open to the public.

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-02-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of February’s book, How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley.
Summary:
“A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley.

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.” (via goodreads)

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Snow Volcanoes!
2025-02-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of March’s book The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Summary:
“In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.
Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.” (via Goodreads)

Ag. Lit. Storytime!
2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Mud Play Day!
2025-03-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Arts & Crafts for Grownups
2025-04-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-04-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of March’s book, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
Summary:
“When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.” (via Goodreads)

Easter Shindig
2025-04-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Closed in observance of Easter
2025-04-21 09:00 - 14:00
We’re closed today in observance of Easter. See you Tuesday at 1pm!

Earth Day Celebration and Plantstravaganza!
2025-04-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Board Meeting
2025-04-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board meets in the Young at Heart Room to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public.

Spring Craft Show Fundraiser!
2025-05-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States

Book Club
2025-05-15 18:00 - 19:00
Join us for a discussion of May’s book, All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker.
Summary:
“1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one eye, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.
Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding light of hope.” (via Goodreads)

Closed for Memorial Day
2025-05-26 00:00
Hello, bookworms! We are closed today in observance of Memorial Day. We’ll be back Tuesday at 1pm. If you’re able, check out the parade in town at 9:30am and the program at the gazebo after.

Sidewalk Chalk Play Day!
2025-05-31 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Annual Meeting
2025-06-07 09:00 - 10:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board of trustees will meet to discuss library matters and elect officers. Meetings are open to the public.
